I read that in a lot of cases IndexWriter.optimize does not have to be called.
I then deleted it and my junit test case broke because results were coming back in the query that were not supposed to be coming back :(. I think everything is single tested. Maybe I should write a more raw junit test first? But I thought I would ask what exactly is optimize doing and is Lucene thread safe...I read that it was somewhere(but also read elsewhere it wasn't). I kind of assumed my IndexWriters are not thread safe, but my IndexSearcher could be running while another thread is using the IndexWriter, right? (Of course, while my unit test is single threaded and failed with just this one line change, our production system will be multithreaded which is why I ask). Thanks, Dean This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system.
